Word: premier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ambassador W. Averell Harriman gave a cocktail party last week at his Moscow residence, Spasso House. His guests: Poland's exiled ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, who had just come from London; Poland's Communist President Boleslaw Bierut, who had just come from Warsaw; and a swatch of other Poles who did not like each other. Drinks flowed. The party was a big success. Five days later the Polish factions surprised a world accustomed to Polish fractiousness: they had reached agreement and formed a government acceptable to all of the Big Three...
Bierut. becomes one of three members of a presidential council. The other two: ailing Wincenty Witos, leader of the Peasant Party, and bearded Nationalist Stanislaw Grabski, 74. Edward Osubka-Morawski, 40, a Socialist who has recently worked in close harmony with Moscow, remains as 'Premier. As Deputy Premier, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk takes an unexpectedly subordinate role...
Last week, while Correspondent Thompson bounded about Prague, President Eduard Benes sent his Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, War Minister Ludvik Svoboda...
...Premier Peter Groza, a chunky, wealthy man addicted to pastel tweeds and spats, relied heavily on Soviet Vice Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky...
...Leopold III, was in St. Wolfgang in the Austrian Alps. Reports that he might come home sent angry citizens swirling through the streets, shouting: "Down with Leopold!'' "Hang the King!" Defiant Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) threatened to bar his reentry into the country with their bodies. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker threatened to resign if King Leopold set foot on Belgian soil. There were rumors that Britain might intervene to restore Leopold to his throne...